"Every half hour, the show is a different rundown," Blome said in discussing the lists of stories that appear on the iPad.

"So every half hour, we have to switch to another rundown and they take awhile to come up. So we say, 'The next half hour of Today in St. Louis starts now,' and it does, but the iPad doesn't," Blome said.

They also use them to look ahead and give upcoming stories the once over and occasionally they use it to learn more about a certain story.

"There was a story with a church I wasn't sure on the pronunciation, so I just flipped over to another tab and Googled the church, and I called at like 5 a.m. hoping to get the voicemail so I could hear the recording, but I actually woke up a priest at 5 a.m., I'm very sorry father," McGonigle said.

But mainly the iPads just replace paper. They're not reading emails, tweeting or posting on Facebook.